the former Libyan leader, Muammar Gaddafi, died of his wounds on Thursday as fighters struggling to complete a survey of eight months of age against their government invaded his hometown of Sirte, Libya's interim rulers, he said.


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His death, which came soon after his capture near Sirte, is the most dramatic event in the spring riots that have toppled Arab rulers in Egypt and Tunisia, and threatened the continuance in power of the leaders of Syria and Yemen .
"He (Gaddafi) was also hit in the head," said an official of the National Transitional Council Abdel Majid Mlegta Reuters. "There was a lot of shots against their group, and died."
Mlegta Reuters said Gaddafi, who was in his 60 years, was captured and wounded in both legs early Thursday while trying to flee in a convoy of NATO planes attacked. He said he had been taken by ambulance.
There was no independent confirmation of his comments.
A fighter anti-Gaddafi, Gaddafi said he had been found hiding in a hole in the ground and told him "Do not shoot, do not shoot" the men grabbed him.
His arrest followed a few minutes from the fall of Sirte, a development that turned the last significant resistance by forces loyal to deposed leader.
The capture of Sirte and Libya's Gaddafi death means NTC ruling must now begin the task of forging a new democratic system was said to be launched after the city, built as a showpiece for Gaddafi's rule, had fallen.
Gaddafi, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of ordering the killing of civilians, was overthrown by rebel forces on 23 August after 42 years of one man in the oil-producing state in North Africa.
NTC soldiers hoisted the national flag red, black and green on a large building services at the center of a newly captured area Sirte and celebratory gunfire broke out among his ecstatic and relieved.
Hundreds of soldiers had surrounded the city NTC Mediterranean coast for weeks in a chaotic battle that killed and injured tens of besieging forces and an unknown number of defenders.
NTC Fighters said there was a large number of bodies within the last remnants of the troops of Gaddafi. It was not immediately possible to verify this information.